Mythmaking in the new Russia : politics and memory during the Yeltsin era / Kathleen E. Smith.

By:

Smith, Kathleen E

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2002Description: 1 online resource (xi, 223 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781501717963
1501717960

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Mythmaking in the new Russia.DDC classification:

947.086 22

LOC classification:

DK510.763 .S6 2002eb

Other classification:

15.70
MG 85070
NQ 8310
7,41

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Contents:

Memory and postcommunist politics -- Rewriting Communist Party history in the constitutional court -- Remembering August 1991 : founding moment or farce? -- Disposing of the spoils of World War II -- Recasting the commemorative calendar -- Remaking the capital's landscape -- Campaigning on the past in the 1996 presidential race -- Searching for a new Russian idea -- Patriotic divisions.

Summary: Kathleen E. Smith examines the use of collective memories in Russian politics during the Yeltsin years, surveying the various issues that became battlegrounds for contending notions of what it means to be Russian.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-218) and index.

Kathleen E. Smith examines the use of collective memories in Russian politics during the Yeltsin years, surveying the various issues that became battlegrounds for contending notions of what it means to be Russian.

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